emilyg's Blog

  Set boundaries to protect your time and energy.

                                                    625

  You can only control your reactions  and attitudes to what happens to you.  You cannot control the actual events.

  If you're always trying to be right about everything you do and say, you'll soon find that you have no one around you who's interested in how right you are.

                                        627

    Every day be grateful for what you're capable of instead of what you can't or didn't do.

  You have three options in any situation:  Act upon it, avoid it, or accept it.  Choose one and move on.

                                                  628

  Don't waste your energy trying to change another  person's behavior.  You'll get frustrated. they'll become defensive, and no one wins.

"I need to be able to move the right people to the right place at the right time to protect you, and I"m not going to accept a lousy bill out of the United Nations Senate."

                                prez. Bush   

                                                    629

  We live in a world of excess, in which how much we own defines who we are.  I'd rather be "too much" than buy too much.  That way I'll never have to have a garage sale to get rid of myself.

                                            630

  If you spend a lot of time thinking about all the things that are wrong with you - try spending the same amount of time thinking of the things that are right with you.

                                    631

  You can have no inner peace as long as the controls of your life are located outside of yourself.

                                                    632

  Get rid of the energy vampires.  If someone drains the life out of  you  whenever you talk to them....get rid of them.

  Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.  Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

s.convey

                                            634

  Rather than fretting about your past or future relationship with your parents, try to be as pleasing and interested in them as you can - today!

                                                    635

From a  health education leaflet on sexually transmitted diseases:  "We don't know why, but it seems that men don't get bacterial vaginosis."

There are only two kinds of people in the world.  There are those who wake up in the morning and say,

  "Good morning, Lord," and those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord!  It's morning!"

thanks to lp member S. for sending me this.